Un­biased Design

Miebach Consulting began over four decades ago when Dr. Miebach saw the need for an unbiased firm to design distribution, warehousing and manufacturing sites, independent of suppliers of equipment or buildings. Since the development of this approach, Miebach has supported some of the first automated warehouses and robotic applications in the industry, constantly looking for innovative ways to improve operations.

Our methodology is not focused on how to introduce automation to an operation, but rather designing sound strategies and processes objectively analyzing the adequate level of technology and identifying possible areas for its application.

Designs based on the client's specific needs

Miebach’s expertise goes beyond design. We support clients with the specification development, tendering, implementation, training and ramp up, and acting as their technical advocate all the way through to the successful go-live. This technical expertise and experience supports our design efforts, ensuring the business case, timelines, and risks identified.

Our approach is based on practical application and not academic theory. This allows our services to be modular, and can range from a complete turnkey application to more of a staff augmentation approach during the later phases of the project.

Miebach Consulting began over four decades ago when Dr. Miebach saw the need for an unbiased firm to design distribution, warehousing and manufacturing sites, independent of suppliers of equipment or buildings. Since the development of this approach, Miebach has supported some of the first automated warehouses and robotic applications in the industry, constantly looking for innovative ways to improve operations.

Our methodology is not focused on how to introduce automation to an operation, but rather designing sound strategies and processes objectively analyzing the adequate level of technology and identifying possible areas for its application.

Designs based on the client's specific needs

Miebach’s expertise goes beyond design. We support clients with the specification...

Multi-specialized

We provide consulting and engineering services to a broad range of industries. Our experience and expertise with diverse lines of business enable us to meet their specific requirements. The Miebach Consulting teams are experienced in all relevant processes, terminologies and benchmarks, enabling them to adapt to individual demands. Because we have executed nearly 10,000 projects over the course of the last 4 decades, we have a strong portfolio of projects across our practices for the industries listed below, as well as others. This multi-specialized approach, as well as our experience in various industries, not only helps us to develop best practices and state-of-the-art supply chain solutions, it also allows us to use the integration of knowledge for successful and efficient interdisciplinary strategies and solutions.

Project support from single source

Whether planning a new facility or optimizing an existing site, you are continuously faced with complex investment decisions, often involving millions of dollars. Hiring a single firm to integrate logistics and construction has proven to be a smart organizational decision to ensure coordinated planning and construction processes.
As a logistics expert, Miebach Consulting is a reliable partner in planning facilities and implementing them on time and under budget. With this combined approach the operational design of the facility has first priority, while the other design efforts are integrated seamlessly.

A process tailored to your needs

As an unbiased consultant, Miebach works independently of specific suppliers or manufacturers. Rather than sourcing an operations consultancy, an architect, and a build firm on your own, we work with you to create specification requirements for each work package and support the tendering and award process.
Our goal is to create a process that best conforms to your specific needs and on-site conditions.

Global Expert

Creating corporate value

Logistics and its contribution to corporate value creation is receiving increased attention in complex production networks and highly competitive market environments. Production logistics are an integral component of the overall supply chain and are synchronized with manufacturing.
Production logistics create value by meeting your manufacturing needs in a corresponding, flow-oriented way according to the pull principle. They ensure stable supply and delivery processes, optimized for lead time, and become increasingly important with decreasing batch sizes.

Planning for the entire supply chain

As a logistics and supply chain expert, Miebach Consulting can support you in developing a concept and introducing value-creating logistics processes, as well as in optimizing existing processes.
As these are often highly detailed complex project, it is important to trust in a partner who can not only develop your proper logistics strategy, but also design and implement the specific delivery concepts at the required locations.

Benefits

Optimal synchronization of production and logistics

Stable and scalable zero-error processes

Process automation to optimize your investments

Sustainable cost-optimization through consideration of Total Cost of Ownership

Global Expert

On budget, in time and with quality

Miebach Consulting plans, controls, and monitors projects of various size and complexity for clients – across all services and industries. From program management for multiple distribution centers for a Fast Moving Consumer Goods company to the Project Management Office (PMO) for the supply chain transformation of a global manufacturer: Our project managers define quantifiable and realistic goals and ensure that you achieve them by providing professional project management. Success is clearly identified from the achievement of goals for budget, timeline, quality, and operating costs.

Your partner for success

Miebach project managers use standardized tools and proven methods to achieve results. To begin, we establish a project handbook of the significant requirements and rules for project organization and processes. We display the project status at all times and in a transparent manner we use tools for deadline tracking, cost controlling, and quality review. Prompt and comprehensive professional risk management ensures your project success.

Benefits

Reliable achievement of goals for output, function, quality, and cost

Secure adherence to stated investment and cost frameworks

High project security by highlighting risks and risk avoidance measures

Global Expert

Evaluating scenarios for minimum risk

Due to the level of complexity of systems, new challenges for supply chain management are constantly surfacing. Planning with simulations embodies an integrated approach for safeguarding decisions when creating highly dynamic systems and networks. Miebach has many years of experience and expertise with simulation, both in launching greenfield systems and in optimizing existing ones. We collaborate with you to develop specific solutions using modern simulation software. Our simulations are done in-house by logistics experts ensuring the results are implementable and protect the business case.

Effective, efficient and fast

Miebach Consulting’s simulations clarify and illustrate existing or planned processes for your organization. By visualizing processes you are able to quickly identify bottlenecks and immediately introduce corrective measures. Flexible simulation models enable testing of various scenarios, then analyze the results in detail. The results of these tests provide reliable estimates of the expected system performance.

Global Expert

Lean material flows

Across industries, companies are noticing a need to develop a long-term logistics masterplan to coincide with the manufacturing evolution of their facilities. Miebach Consulting designs lean material flows to support the production processes and a flexible and expandable infrastructure. Additionally, as the role of the storage of finished goods moves toward more fulfillment activity and away from simple plant buffer, it becomes even more critical to ensure the operational processes are well-defined.

Meeting future plant requirements

The design process starts with understanding how your business and manufacturing plans will evolve in the long-term to define your future design requirements of the plant. Miebach then develops proper processes and efficient material flows in order to ensure the site logistics will meet your future needs. Only after this is defined, alternatives are proposed as to how technology could maximize the return on the transformation of your site.

Benefits

Long-term logistics plan to match site evolution

Ensured SKU proliferation of material and components are handled effectively

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Continuity throughout change

When planning changes to your logistics activities, it is essential to have a clear vision of how and what resources are needed to resume or continue operations with minimal impact to your customers, employees and operational results. Miebach Consulting creates a detailed implementation plan and prepares for challenges throughout the process. By this, we are able to provide active ramp-up support to your staff, maintain continuity in your service levels, and successfully manage the cost, timespan, and overall impact of the transition.

Comprehensive implementation plan

From concept to implementation, the complex matrix of details are critical not only for the operational changes, but for the impact on personnel as well as information flow. Analyzing inventory, operational schedules, IT systems, and timing allows for the development of a comprehensive implementation plan. This plan includes staffing assignments, adequate training and the coordination of support.

Global Expert

Translating business strategies into logistics

For decades, Miebach Consulting has focused on providing clients with efficient warehouses that are designed by an organization that ensures thought leadership in logistic processes and technologies. To this day, warehouse design remains a core service of our organization. For us, the design of the warehouse does not start with the layout or level of automation. Rather, we start by translating your future business strategy into tangible facility requirements, and then by looking at the strategies and processes to best fulfill these design requirements.

Automation level follows Processes

The design process starts with understanding how your business and manufacturing plans will evolve in the long-term to define the future design requirements of the plant. Miebach then develops proper processes and efficient material flows in order to ensure the site logistics will meet your future needs. Only after this is defined, alternatives are proposed as to how technology could maximize your return on the transformation of the site.

Benefits

Increased throughput and productivity

Proper level of investment for each functional area which maximizes return

Global Expert

Ensuring Best Practices

Miebach Consulting is instrumental in helping define and select a suitable IT solution for warehouse management. We advise from strategy to go-live, independent of supplier. We work alongside the client to outline target requirements for processes, structures, systems, and IT service providers in specification sheets. Our experts are familiar with various warehouse management systems, from the largest brands to local or industry specialists. We work together to determine the most suitable software suppliers through a multi-stage request for quotations and a closely supported selection process.

Support along the way

By providing professional moderation for meetings with bidders and support in contractual negotiations, we ensure an effective IT selection process. We utilize workshops to ensure high quality specifications when creating specification sheets. We create the test plan, and accept responsibility for neutral coordination with all system partners. This allows us to support you in quality assurance and go-live.

Global Expert

Projects

Modern pharma logistics and packaging center

Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices

Production Logistics

Project Management

Warehouse Design

Projects

Project Summary

A global pharma group planned a new logistics and packaging center for pills as an extension to their main plant. In coordination with the partners for construction and building technology, Miebach Consulting participated significantly in planning and implementing the new facilities. The new logistics center was designed as an innovative solution for the interface between logistics and supply and waste disposal of the packaging lines through several material and personnel air locks.

Fully automated food warehouse implementation

Consumer Goods

Warehouse Design

Warehouse Management Systems

Site Masterplanning

Projects

Project Summary

A multinational food and beverage conglomerate asked Miebach Consulting to assistance in designing and implementing the food grade warehouse for a regional plant. The challenge was to meet the warehouse’s high throughput requirement in minimum space, considering high cost of a temperature controlled warehouse. This mandated design of a complex material flow from plant to palletization to wrapping to food grade storage into a high density, fully-automated storage and retrieval system.

Project Scope

Design and implementation of optimized material flow within the warehouse

Benefits

Implementation of automated high bay store

Consumer Goods

Transition Planning

Warehouse Design

Project Management

Projects

Project Summary

One of the largest drugstore chains on the continent was reorganizing and optimizing their distribution network due to substantial business growth. Miebach Consulting had already provided the concept and design in a previous project, and the client was ready to move on to the implementation phase of the project. The central distribution center would be extended with ASRS for pallets, miniload with pick & pass system, and pick-by-light in the picking zone.

Project Scope

Specify implementation and define IT requirements

Support of tendering process for the logistical equipment

Manage the project during construction and implementation

Benefits

Increased improvement of efficiency and quality due to automation level

Material flow study and masterplan increases capability

Chemical

Production Logistics

Site Masterplanning

Transition Planning

Projects

Project Summary

One of the largest oil companies in the world contracted Miebach Consulting to redesign the layout of a regional production plant. The changes will allow the plant to increase production volume and dispatch capability. Together with the company that developed the production equipment Miebach designed the new masterplan and transition plan and prepared the roadmap for the implementation.

Project Scope

Create masterplan layout including production and logistics areas

Develop a detailed design of logistics equipment and infrastructure required

Benefits

Planning, construction, and go-live support

Chemical

Warehouse Design

Warehouse Management Systems

Integrated Logistics and Construction

Go Live Management

Projects

Project Summary

A chemical company needed a new production site and warehouse as well as a place to store construction material on site. Miebach Consulting developed a plan to build the warehouse first, using it for storage during the production facility build. Next we designed the layout and technologies for construction and production phases, and oversaw construction and engineering. Finally, Miebach redesigned their WMS and supported the local team with extensive processes, including IT training and Go Live Management.

New logistics center increases capacity by 35 %

Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices

Site Masterplanning

Warehouse Design

Production Logistics

Projects

Project Summary

A leading global pharmaceutical company needed to update and expand an existing site due to logistics areas being at their limit of capacity and the lack of a connection between logistics and manufacturing floors. They asked Miebach Consulting to evaluate the feasibility of different scenarios. Miebach developed a logistics concept for both existing areas and helped with the design for the new packaging center.

Project Scope

Develop preselected concepts complying with GMP and GxP guidelines

Dimension all logistics areas and their capacities

Support for the design of a new logistics and packaging center

Benefits

Optimized use of capacity ensures future competitiveness of the site

Increased manufacturing and packaging volumes due to automated material flows

Seamless production supply because of automated connection between floors